looks like possibly this one Strummy?

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1966-1975/1973_ef.html?lang=us&categ=crn&page=1966-1975

The EF had a mechanical controlled shutter for the faster speeds and the slower speeds were electronically controlled.

SteveStrummerUK

Beagle


the description of the Canon doesn't ring a bell, but there's a Canon Museum webpage

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/

which is official Canon so it should have all of the models listed there, you might could find it.

 
Thanks mate, I'll check that out.
 
 

Found it I think - Canon FTb!
 

 
 
I definitely had one of these, I just can't remember if that was the fully mechanical one. The manual mentions that (only?) the built-in metering will stop if the battery fails so this might be the one.
 
Cheers again Beag.
 
 
 

Beagle


looks like possibly this one Strummy?

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1966-1975/1973_ef.html?lang=us&categ=crn&page=1966-1975

The EF had a mechanical controlled shutter for the faster speeds and the slower speeds were electronically controlled.

 
Thanks for the research mate, but I'm sure now it was that FTb. According to Wikipedia: "The FTb has an all-mechanical horizontally traveling focal plane shutter with timed speeds from 1/1000 to 1 second and bulb. The FTb has rubberized silk shutter curtains rather than the more durable but more expensive titanium curtains found on the F-1."
 
 

good deal!

mike_mccue


I try to throw out as many near miss photos as I can.

We are always upgrading to new backup drives, but the cost still seems cheaper than the space I still use to store all my old negatives.

Our short term goal is to get a NAS server for the entire photo collection so that we may access them wirelessly and sort out the most likely to be valued over the years so they are easy to find and print.

BTW, "her" camera is an original Canon 5d and I use our Canon 5dmkII... we like having them because there are such nice lenses available for them.

The new Canon 6D is about to come out and it has great specs. In the meantime the 5dmkII is dropping in price and is a lot of bang at the latest prices.

But then, the Nikon bodies make some Canon owners, like me, envious.

When you have a bunch of lenses you like it's likely you stay with a system.

It's never clear, to me, which compnay is in the lead at any given time.

We retired a 35mm Nikon FE and gave away the lenses when we bought the Canon full frame DSLR.

Now Nikon makes a real nice full frame body with excellent on board noise reduction processing.

I wish it was easy to use the lenses I have on either. :-)

best regards,
mike

 I like the idea of a dedicated server for pics.  The SDHC cards are now so inexpensive that the short term solution is simply to leave them on a card. My wife does this even when uploading or transferring somewhere else.If we could keep the cards organized it would not be a difficult way to do it. Maybe inconvenient for fast retreival but safer than a platter drive overall. One recent pro photographer whose pics we looked at gave us a server to access. Great idea for a pro who does it for a living. Servers can go down though and just like DAW work need backed up. Data backup in general makes me nervous.